Science Blog 7

1.What science ideas did you learn?

I learned about the cells in potatos and grass. I learned that the metholine and the lugol helped you see different parts of the cells. I I also learned a lot about plant cells and animal cells. I learned all the different parts of the plant and animal cells and that they share some of the same parts such as the nucleus. We also learned about what types of cells were contained in on the inside of our cheeks.

2.How did you learn these ideas?

I learned these ideas by doing experiments. For the potato and grass experiments we put potato and water under a microscope,potato and metholine,potato and lugol, and grass. We then looked and saw the differernt cells. The metholine and the lugol helped us see the different cells. We learned about plant and animal cells by going up to the smart board and labeling a plant cell and an animal cell. We learned what cells are on the inside of our cheeks by rubbing a toothpick on our inside part of our cheek and then rubbing it on a slide and then observing it under a microscope.

3.Why is it important to know these ideas?

It is important to know these ideas because it is helpful to see what metholine and lugol do to help you see different cells. It is important to know about the different parts of plants and animal cells because you can compare it with other cells and if you didn't knwo the names of the parts and you thought that you discovered something about that cell, you wouldn't be able to ask a classmate what they thought it was because you wouldn't understand each other. It is important to know about cheek cells because again it could help us with the experiments we have to do because we might see the same thing in one experiment that we saw in the cheek cell experiment.